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gage iu tbe business, and, as chiccory thrives on all river-bottoms of a 

 sandy loam, it can be extended indefinitely. 



Mustard-seed, English and wild, is another product which is engaging 

 attention and promising to become an extensive source of profit. In 

 1871, of English, Monterey County produced 13,000 bushels, valued at 

 over $20,000; while of wild, Santa Barbara County gathered over 

 $10,000 worth, and other parts of the State enough to bring the value 

 up to $60,000. 



A successful beginning has been made in growing broom-corn. In 

 1870 the value of the crop, produced principally in Yuba, Sutter, and 

 Amador Counties, was over $40,000. 



The report further represents that encouraging experimentshave been 

 made in the State in the growing of tea, coffee, rice. New Zealand and 

 common flax, tobacco, and opium. In regard to the two latter, it has 

 been proved that certain California soils equal the best Virginia tobacco 

 lands, and samples of opinm grown in the State have been pronounced 

 by experts to be quite equal to the best imported article. 



TENNESSEE. 



The delightful climate, rich soil, and valuable undeveloi)ed mineral 

 resources of Tennessee are attracting the attention of enterprising 

 farmers, manufacturers, and business men of the Northern States. 

 Many of the more intelligent and thrifty emigrants from the Old World 

 are also directing their steps thither. Professor Louis Basse, a German 

 gentleman of some note as a writer on agricultural subjects, recently 

 located in Stewart County, West Tennessee, from which point he writes 

 relative to the agricultural resources and capabilities, and great mineral' 

 wealth of that locality. He has been a resident of this country for six 

 years, has traveled extensively over six different States, and, after a res- 

 idence of one year iu Tennessee, gives it as his o])inion that it is one of 

 the most desirable locations he has yet found. The country is moun- 

 tainous, and the surface generally undulating. There is a great differ- 

 ence of altitude, and consequently a great diversity of climate. The 

 valleys are narrow and the streams ra})id. 



In the whole region of East Tennessee but few marshes can be found, 

 and, save along the larger streams and rivers, there are no considerable 

 bodies of bottom-lands. The rivers being fed principally by mountain 

 springs are clear and cool, and filled with many excellent varieties ot 

 fish, including the speckled trout. The valleys are very productive and 

 well adapted to the growth of the grasses, clover, wheat, corn, oats, 

 barley, rye, tobacco, &c. As a tobacco-growing region it is favorably 

 regarded; it is also well adapted to the growth of the grape, which is 

 now being extensively cultivated. Tliat portion of the State is composed 

 of four distinct varieties of land: the valley, the bottom, the ridge, and 

 the mountain lands. The ridge lands are valuable only for their timber, 

 while the mountain lands contain great mineral wealth, yet undeveloped. 

 Coal is found in great abundance, and marble deposits are inexhaustible. 

 The price of land ranges from $5 to $100 i)er acre, river or bottom 

 lands bringing the latter price. The winters are mild, and the sum- 

 mers cool aud pleasant; the air is pure, dry, and healthj\ A casual 

 observer would conclude that in a latitude of 36° north the weather 

 would be very hot in summer; but the latitude is offset by the altitude.^ 



